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' NU. 625,436. Patented May'23, I399;

M. H. UHLIG.

APPARATUS FOR APPLYING WADDING T0 PAP-EB.

(Application filed Aug. 4, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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' UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

MARCUS MAX UH LIG, OF ERDMANNSDORF, GERMANY.

APPARATUS FOR APPLYING WADDING TO PAPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 625,430, dated May 23, 1899.

Serial No. 687,745. (No model To (all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARCUS MAX UHLIG, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, residing at Erdmannsdorf, Empire of Germany, have invented a certain new and useful Apparatus for Applying Wadding to Paper, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The present invention relates to an apparatus for applying medicinal wadding to closet and other paper.

-In order to render the present specification more easily intelligible, reference is had to the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference denote similar parts throughout both views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation, and Fig. 2 a plan, of one form of machine for carrying the invention into practice.

A pair of levers to, having two sets of bearing-arms, are pivotally mounted on the shaft Z) at the lower part of the machine-frame. The paper-r0112 is revolubly supported in forks supported on the front part of the machineframe, while the drum or reel 0 for thefinished ware is supported in the forward upwardly-extending bifurcated arms of the levers a. A guide-drum k is mounted in the machine-frame, on which drum the said reel 0 runs by friction. The fleece coming from the carding-engine is gathered and fed to the paper by means of a partly-open guide funnel or plate m and passes thence under a pressure and guide roll (1, mounted in the rear part of the arms a, onto the paper. A milktrough e is mounted at the rear part of the machine-frame to swing on pivots f f, said trough having upwardly-extending arms, to which is pivoted a connecting-rod h, which couples the rear end of the trough to a lever 9, adapted to be thrown around its pivot, and thus to tip the trough, so that the cushion f may be tipped away from the paper While the machine is running. The fleece coming from the carding-engine passes under the comb Z and thence to the gathering guide-plate m.

The operation of the apparatus takes place in the following manner: The paper from the drum 2' passes around the drum k and under and onto the drum 0. All these drums are supported in open bifurcations of their bearings and maybe easily removed. The fleece passes from the carding-engine at the same rate of speed as the paper is moving. The paper is coated with a thin coating of milk as it passes the cushion f, and the fleece coming from the guide-plate m passes onto the Wet paper, on which it is pressed by the roll at and by the drum 0, which rests with its whole weight on the drum 76, from which it receives its motion. When the drum 0 is full, it may be lifted out of its bearings and another drum substituted.

By lifting the levers a the roll or drum 0 may be brought out of contact With the drum 7c, and by turning the handles 9 the milktrough may be tipped so as to move its contents away from the cushion f when the machine is out of operation. The levers a may betipped or swung on their pivots by means of the handles g.

The bridge or guard n serves to hold the paper off the drum 70 immediately after the wadding has been applied to the paper, so as to prevent the edges of the latter from coming into contact with any moisture which may be on the drum k as far as possible- 2. e., to give the edges a short time for drying.

If desired, two or three apparatuses may be arranged side by side, as indicated by the lines I, II, and III, according to the length of the carding-engine. Drum k may be driven by pulleys K.

I claim as my invention 1. In a machine for applying wadding and the like to paper continuously, the combination of a pressure-drum d and a reel 0 for the finished ware, a pair of levers Ct having bifurcated arms to support said drum and reel, a machine-frame, at the lower part of which said levers are pivotally supported, a drivingdrum 7e on which said reel 0 rests and means for rotating the same, a paper-reel and bifurcated bearings in the machine-frame to support the same, a guide-plate m for the fleece coming from the carding-engine and passing under drum (1, and means for supplying milk to the said paper before the fleece meets the same substantially as described.

2. The combination of a paper-reel and a driving and pressure drum, a stationary machine-frame to support said reel and drum revolubly, a pair of arms a, pivoted to said frame and having upwardly-extending bifur cushion dipping into the said milk-trough and against which the paper from the paperreel brushes, a guide-plate m at the rear of the drum (1 to guide the fleece coming from the carding-engine andvmeans for rotating 10 the said drum Z0 substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two Witnesses.

MARCUS MAX UHLIG.

WVitnesses:

A. RENCHER, EUGEN SABEL. 

